effectual calling en · NOUN
Meanings
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The invitation to come to Christ which the elect receive.
He'll ſcreed you aff Effectual Calling, / As faſt as ony in the dwalling.— [...]
1801, Robert Burns, “The Inventory. In Answer to a Mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes.”, in Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Bard, […], Glasgow: […] Chapman & Lang, for Thomas Stewart, […], →OCLC, page 48: